Well maybe I don’t have an eye for detail. Butts are a little different, not much, lock is very close, I understand some ‘63s had the band spring some did not, and I understand some had the band spring added in later life, butt plate is very close.
Are these greater then the difference between perdisoli bess 7/8 and real?
Now I’m not a military guy, but I’m seeing two very close examples here
I’ve often thought about Cornwallis March to Yorktown. How many field modifications had to be done by the armorer on the march.
Even though guns had go no go they were not made with interchangeable parts. An army of the Eighteenth century was not as uniform as middle nineteenth.
Across New France the armorer had to keep guns functioning and adapt as needed.
I went to an 1812 event, as a civilian turned out for militia. The commander didn’t know if I should participate. I had an early nineteenth century working man’s coat, but had eighteenth century buttons on it. He dinged me on that. But I pointed out I’m sixty years old, I didn’t throw away old buttons, but just repurposed them. He reluctantly let me in.
Do those very minor details justify two to five times the price?
I dress in wool of sheep that didn’t exist back then, dyed with dyes yet to be invented and dine on salt pork made from breeds not yet bred.
Prices are all relevant to supply and demand, Indian guns are purchased a low prices because they’re imported from India and produced under almost slave labor like conditions, that’s the hard truth about buying Indian made guns. Yea they’re more affordable, but at a terrible cost.
I have tons of respect for those guys over there and probably could learn a thing or two, but they’re poorly paid, uninsured and work in hellish conditions. So, prices are all relevant and yes, a high quality charleville with attention to details justifies the price.
A 7/8 scale second model brown bess is about 3lbs too light, everything is significantly smaller, refer to Dave_Persons tutorials, he has pictures o the stocks and butt plates side by side. A
A 1763 charleville didn’t have a rear band spring, all of them were friction fit. A rear band spring wasn’t introduced until the light model 66 was developed and even those were made initially with no rear band spring, later 1766’s were modified and 1768’s were patterned with a rear band spring. . My original 1766 doesn’t have rear band spring, making it a rare one.
There are no Indian made 1763’s that I’m aware of, all of the Indian made repro’s are intended to be a 1768 charleville, which is way too bulky all over, the locks are wrong and the stocks are very wrong.
1763’s had a very high comb, and unique barrel band system and a much more massive lock with a very large barrel in .72 caliber. These are totally different from anything made by India, pedersoli etc.
Even a modified 1763 is going to be vastly different from an Indian made one.
Pederosli’s 1763/66 musket is the closest thing I’ve ever seen and its still way off by many details.
